Bolton tie up Iran’s Teymourian
Wednesday, 30 August 2006
Bolton Wanderers FC have acquired the services of
Iranian international midfielder Andranik Teymourian
and are close to completing a deal for another player
who was involved at this summer’s FIFA World Cup in
the shape of Czech Republic left-back Pavel Mare?.
Impressive World Cup
The 23-year-old Teymourian, who has signed a two-year
contract with the English Premiership side, joins from
Iranian club Abu Moslem. The defensive midfielder made
his international debut last summer and featured in
all three of Iran’s games in Germany, taking his cap
count to eleven. “Andranik is a talented player and
someone I believe will be able to adapt to the tough
demands of the Premiership,” said Bolton manager Sam
Allardyce. “He impressed a lot of people during the
World Cup and I’m delighted we’ve beaten off a lot of
competition to get his signature.”
Mare? move
Mare?, meanwhile, is closing in on a move from Russian
outfit FC Zenit St. Petersburg that could be worth
almost 3m. The 30-year-old, capped ten times by the
Czech Republic although an unused squad member in
Germany, has been deemed surplus to requirements at
the Petrovsky stadium by Zenit coach Dick Advocaat,
having joined the club in 2003 from AC Sparta Praha.
The defender has no regrets, however, saying: “I will
always remember my time in Russia. I achieved the best
results of my career with Zenit, who will stay in my
heart forever. I haven’t signed a contract with Bolton
yet, but I plan to sort this out before the transfer
window closes.”
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PRESS RELEASE
Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) – Yerevan Office
53-55 Pavstos Byuzand Street, 375010
Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
Contact: Inessa Grigoryan
Tel: (+374 10) 522076; 562068
Fax: (+374 10) 522076
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
Children of Armenia Fund – New York Office
630 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2100,
New York, NY 10111, USA
Contact: Mariam Dilakian
Tel: 212 – 994 – 8201
Fax: 212 – 994 – 8299
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
H.H. Garegin II Lends COAF Expertise in Construction
Architects and Engineers of the Holy See of Etchmiadzin Joined the COAF
Team to Assess the Reconstruction Work-in-Progress in COAF’s Model
Cluster of Armavir
Armavir District, Republic of Armenia, August 30, 2006 ¾ Today,
several architects and construction engineers of the Holy See of
Etchmiadzin joined the construction oversight team of the Children of
Armenia Fund (COAF) to assess the reconstruction project of the Dalarik
Secondary School, currently in progress. The group was led by Dr. Garo
Armen, COAF Founder and Chairman, and the Chief Architect of the Holy
See of Etchmiadzin, Artavazt Nazaretyan. The group of experts
thoroughly inspected the reconstruction project design and
work-in-progress and made recommendations for safeguarding COAF’s
construction standards, including elements of functionality and
aesthetics.
This assessment trip to the Model Cluster was initiated as a result of
the meeting between the Catholicos and Dr. Armen, during which H.H.
Garegin II displayed an extensive personal interest in COAF’s
reconstruction works and in the comprehensive rural development program
the organization is implementing in six villages of the Armavir
District.
During an earlier trip to the Model Cluster, H.H. Garegin II had
observed the noticeable change in the life of the residents of the rural
communities he visited ¾ Karakert, Lernagog and Dalarik. Learning
about the different components of COAF’s Model Cluster program and
encouraged by the results COAF had realized in a short period of time,
the Catholicos had pledged his personal engagement in assuring that the
reconstruction quality standards defined by COAF are maintained
throughout COAF’s reconstruction projects.
In his remarks at the wrap-up meeting held at the Dalarik construction
site, Dr. Armen expressed gratitude for the expertise lent by H.H.
Garegin II, and instructed the contractor to immediately incorporate the
recommendations. He emphasized, once again, the importance of
continuously monitoring the work-in-progress and periodically inviting
experts for an independent assessment of the work.
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PRESS RELEASE
The Heritage Party
Yerevan, Armenia
Tel.: (+374 – 10) 27.00.03, 27.16.00 (temporary)
Fax: (+374 – 10) 52.48.46 (temporary)
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
Website:
August 31, 2006
Justice Denied In Three Acts: Heritage Headquarters Break-In Confirmed, But
Criminal Case Refused
Yerevan–On August 29, 2006, the Heritage Party received official
notification from Colonel Hovik Tamamyan of Yerevan’s Central Police
Department that laboratory examinations confirmed that unknown persons broke
into Heritage’s office and attached a “flash” copying mechanism and external
monitor to its computer system on the night of March 8, four days after the
Paronian Theater’s management had illegally locked Raffi Hovannisian and his
colleagues out of their place of work. This finding notwithstanding, the
police department concluded on August 24 that no criminal charges would be
brought on the premise, clearly contrived, that there was no positive
evidence, only assumptions, that any information was actually taken from the
computer system and thus that any illegality had occurred. In an amazing
display of Armenia’s “presidential justice,” the police apparently carried
out their “instruction from above” to close down the case without
questioning the management of the theater or any other possible suspects, in
places high and low, of the criminal break-in.
This telling decision was issued in response to Raffi Hovannisian’s May 29
affidavit testifying that on March 8, exactly four days after Heritage party
headquarters had been forcibly shut down without a legal warrant and further
access to it had been blocked, one or more people had gained entry into the
office’s main computer, where all information regarding the party, its
membership, and its activities is maintained. In the words of Heritage
attorney Zaruhi Postanjian: “After having examined the computer, experts
from the National Bureau of Investigation affirmed that on that night, when
the office was deemed vacant by a later court ruling, the computer was put
in operational mode for 22-24 minutes and, what is more, was hooked up to a
monitor. The results of the investigation demanded, therefore, that a
criminal case be launched. In a flagrant disregard of law and justice,
however, the police department refused to authorize such a probe, making
dubious references to ‘corpus delicti.’ We will appeal this sham
determination to the courts of law and public opinion.”
On August 24, the same day as the police department’s cover-up of justice,
Judge Narine Barseghyan of Yerevan’s Davtashen-Ajapniak Court of First
Instance heard Raffi Hovannisian’s complaint against the marshals of the
Service for Mandatory Execution of Judicial Acts (SMEJA). Hovannisian had
disputed their unlawful sealing of the Heritage office on May 30, only one
day after it reopened pursuant to the injunction issued in the underlying
case by Judge Edward Avetisyan. The SMEJA officers had forced Hovannisian
and the office staff to leave the premises.
Reflecting on the illegal actions taken by the marshals, Judge Barseghyan
seemed to pose a series of irrelevant questions with the intent to divert
the proceedings from the subject matter of the complaint. In response to the
judge’s query into Raffi Hovannisian’s current entitlement to the space,
Zaruhi Postanjian noted: “This matter is subject to clarification and is
currently being considered by the Court of Appeals. As for today’s petition,
submitted by us to your jurisdiction, we are seeking a legal assessment of
the activities carried out by SMEJA officials.”
Even though the hearing had resonated with the public at large and the
courtroom was at full capacity, representatives of neither SMEJA nor the
Paronian Theater were present. In all probability, they had advance
confidence that they would not be brought to justice. Despite the absence of
the defendants, Judge Barseghyan went forward with the trial and, in
predictable conformity with the tide of Armenian “jurisprudence,” denied
Hovannisian’s petition.
And finally on the next day, August 25, the Court of Appeals, composed of
Judges Artashes Tumanyan, Karine Hakobyan, and Astghik Kharatyan, rejected
Raffi Hovannisian’s demand for clarification of the judgment issued on June
26 by Judge Avetisian of the Central and Nork-Marash Court. According to
that judgment, the forcible closure of Heritage’s office was deemed illegal.
Separately, Hovannisian was instructed to pay certain rental installments
for a period when he was not actually making use of the premises. Hence, the
Court in effect validated the five-year real-estate lease entered into in
2002, but was silent on whether Hovannisian still could use the leased space
until 2007.
Once again, nothing out of the ordinary took place. Abusing its prerogative
to execute justice, the appeals panel carried out “in the name of the
Republic of Armenia,” yet another special directive coming from the
“presidential above.” And once again Raffi Hovannisian’s request, this time
for a simple clarification, was rejected. “We have become permanent
eyewitnesses to the successive stagings of ‘justice’ and the finale of the
show is nothing more than an ‘old song,’ but we will appeal all the way up,”
commented Heritage board chairman Vardan Khachatrian.
Founded in 2002, Heritage has regional divisions throughout the land. Its
central headquarters are located at 7 Vazgen Sargsian Street, Yerevan 0010,
Armenia, with telephone contact at (374-10) 27.00.03, 27.16.00 (temporary),
fax at (374-10) 52.48.46 (temporary), email at [email protected], and website
at

PRESS RELEASE
Catholicosate of Cilicia
Communication and Information Department
Contact: V.Rev.Fr.Krikor Chiftjian, Communications Officer
Tel: (04) 410001, 410003
Fax: (04) 419724
E-mail: [email protected]
Web:
PO Box 70 317
Antelias-Lebanon
Armenian version:
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES THE AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES
The Ambassador of the United States to Lebanon, Jeffrey Feltman, visited His
Holiness Aram I in Bikfaya on August 30.
The Ambassador and His Holiness Aram I met for an hour and a half during
which discussions focused on the post-war efforts exerted by the various
Lebanese communities. His Holiness expressed his views on the peace process
and the importance of preserving the integrity of the Middle East.
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The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is one of the two Catholicosates of
the Armenian Orthodox Church. For detailed information about the history and
mission of the Cilician Catholicosate, you may refer to the web page of the
Catholicosate, The Cilician Catholicosate, the
administrative center of the church is located in Antelias, Lebanon.

PRESS RELEASE
Armenia Fund USA, Inc.
152 Madison Ave, S-803
New York, NY 10016, U.S.A.
T/1-212-689-5307
F/1-212-689-5317
E-mail: [email protected]
URL:
Armenia Fund USA Joins the Civil Society Voice of the UN
NEW YORK, New York – “If the United Nations’ global agenda is to be properly
addressed, a partnership with civil society at large is not an option, it is
a necessity.” This is how United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
defines non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) partnership with the world
body and the importance of a unified vision to tackle global challenges that
range from poverty eradication to provision of clean drinking water, from
halting the spread of deadly disease to bringing sustainability in the
social and economic development of the world’s impoverished.

Approved by the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations of the
Department of Public Information (DPI) in July 2006, Armenia Fund USA joined
the United Nations’ family of NGOs as an organization with extensive
expertise in international development and humanitarian activities in
Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. In its capacity to support the aims and most
humane purposes of the world organization and more than 1500 NGOs that work
closely with it, the Fund’s accreditation to the United Nations comes as a
continuous commitment to its mission of bringing long-term sustainable
development to men, women and children in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.
Although having always had strong ties with civil society and private
sector, the United Nations’ relations with NGOs have significantly evolved
over the past twenty years. This broadening included a very active inclusion
of a wide range of entities, global organizations of various missions, and,
most importantly, civil society groups in the day-to-day work and decision
making of the UN. From the peripheral part, initially assigned to them,
these actors today play a major role in raising awareness on a wide range of
issues on a global level.
The UN Department of Public Information is the central source of information
dissemination about the work of the UN and its cooperation with the civil
society. More than 1,500 non-governmental organizations and advocacy groups
are currently associated with the UN through the DPI.
Founded in 1992 as part of Hayastan All-Armenian Fund and incorporated as
Armenia Fund USA in 1995, the Fund’s mission is providing large-scale
infrastructure and self-sustainable development to Armenia and Karabakh.
Initially mandated with the task of providing humanitarian aid following
Armenia’s independence from the Soviet Union, the Fund has evolved over
years into an organization that has an impressive track record of having
successfully completed a diverse range of large-scale infrastructure and
self-sustainable development programs in the region. From combating poverty
to providing jobs, empowering farming communities in poor and rural areas to
strengthening civil society’s involvement in the development and transition
process of Armenia, the Fund has largely contributed to the overall economic
development, social reform and encouragement of civic activism in the
country.
Today Armenia Fund USA joins the forum of like-minded organizations and
partners to promote higher standards of living toward social progress and
development.

AHMEDOGLU: “KASPRZYK HAS NEVER GIVEN OBJECTIVE INFORMATION CONCERNING AZERBAIJAN”
Today, Azerbaijan
Aug. 30, 2006
Fires in territories, bordering to Nagorno Karabakh, have been lasting
for about two months.
Recently, the personal envoy of the OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej
Kasprzyk monitored the territory in order to clarify causes of the
fires. According to the diplomat, “hot weather, which has early set in,
and strong winds are reason, which caused fact that area in contact
line’s zone, enveloped in fires, turned out to be considerably bigger,
comparing with ones in previous years.”
Political Innovations and Technologies Center Chairman Mubariz
Ahmedoglu commented on arisen situation.
Mr. Ahmedoglu, personal envoy of the OSCE chairman-in-office Andrzej
Kasprzyk stated that fires in territories, bordering to Nagorno
Karabakh, were not caused by Armenians, as the Azerbaijani side
maintains, but they were caused by heat, wind, and other natural
phenomena. To what extent, in your opinion, his words correspond
with reality?
When the fires began, the weather was not hot. If they had been
lasting for 15 last days, i.e. when the weather was really hot,
his words could be considered seriously. The matter concerns other
thing here. Armenians realizes very good; they should return Agdam,
Fizuli, and other occupied areas to Azerbaijan; that is why, they
committed arsons. As for Kasprzyk…It is worth mentioning, he has
never given objective information concerning Azerbaijan. Even during
his stay at the fire line, he succeeded in not making notes of shots
from the Armenian side.
Let’s ignore Kasprzyk’s words. Finally, Armenian officials and mass
media went much further, maintaining that the fires were made by
Azeri soldiers, who shot fire-bullets at territories, controlled by
Armenian servicemen…
No Azeri would set fire to native land under any circumstances. It is
enough to remind old parable in order to prove absurdity of Armenian
statements. Two women came to King Solomon, each of them maintaining,
she was mother of baby. The King ordered to bring the baby and
pronounced sentence. The child should be cut up in two parts in
order to give each woman one part, because none of them could prove
its right on the child. One of the women stayed absolutely calm,
while the other one fell to the king’s foots, crying and refusing
her claims on the child. The wise king ordered to hand over the baby
to the woman, who immediately refused her mother right in order to
rescue the child. Probably, no further commentaries are necessary.
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AZERBAIJANI ANALYST: KASPRZYK HAS NEVER GIVEN OBJECTIVE INFORMATION CONCERNING AZERBAIJAN
Regnum, Russia
Aug. 30, 2006
Fires in territories, bordering to Nagorno Karabakh, have been
lasting for about two months. Recently, the personal envoy of the OSCE
chairman-in-office Andrzej Kasprzyk monitored the territory in order to
clarify causes of the fires. According to the diplomat, “hot weather,
which has early set in, and strong winds are reason, which caused fact
that area in contact line’s zone, enveloped in fires, turned out to be
considerably bigger, comparing with ones in previous years.” Requested
by a REGNUM correspondent, Political Innovations and Technologies
Center Chairman Mubariz Ahmedoglu commented on arisen situation.
REGNUM: Mr. Ahmedoglu, personal envoy of the OSCE chairman-in-office
Andrzej Kasprzyk stated that fires in territories, bordering to
Nagorno Karabakh, were not caused by Armenians, as the Azerbaijani
side maintains, but they were caused by heat, wind, and other natural
phenomena. To what extent, in your opinion, his words correspond
with reality?
When the fires began, the weather was not hot. If they had been
lasting for 15 last days, i.e. when the weather was really hot,
his words could be considered seriously. The matter concerns other
thing here. Armenians realizes very good; they should return Agdam,
Fizuli, and other occupied areas to Azerbaijan; that is why, they
committed arsons. As for Kasprzyk…It is worth mentioning, he has
never given objective information concerning Azerbaijan. Even during
his stay at the fire line, he succeeded in not making notes of shots
from the Armenian side.
REGNUM: Let’s ignore Kasprzyk’s words. Finally, Armenian officials and
mass media went much further, maintaining that the fires were made
by Azeri soldiers, who shot fire-bullets at territories, controlled
by Armenian servicemen…
No Azeri would set fire to native land under any circumstances. It is
enough to remind old parable in order to prove absurdity of Armenian
statements. Two women came to King Solomon, each of them maintaining,
she was mother of baby. The King ordered to bring the baby and
pronounced sentence. The child should be cut up in two parts in
order to give each woman one part, because none of them could prove
its right on the child. One of the women stayed absolutely calm,
while the other one fell to the king’s foots, crying and refusing
her claims on the child. The wise king ordered to hand over the baby
to the woman, who immediately refused her mother right in order to
rescue the child. Probably, no further commentaries are necessary.

TWO PLUS TWO
San Francisco Bay Guardian, CA
Aug. 30, 2006
Erin Gilley’s Picks
1. “365 Days/365 Plays” Suzan-Lori Parks wrote a play for each day
of the year. They’ll be performed all year by artists nationwide, and
San Francisco will be a huge part of the largest theater collaboration
in history. A stunt, but a really cool one. Begins Nov.
13. SF venues TBA.
2. Big Love Not the HBO show – living, breathing theater, with a big
prize for the ugliest bridesmaid’s dress in the audience. Sept.
28-Oct. 21. Traveling Jewish Theatre, 470 Florida, SF. $15-$30.
1-800-838-3006,
Erin Gilley is general manager of Crowded Fire Theater.
JOHN WILKINS’S PICKS
1. Hamlet: Blood on the Brain In a nifty display of relocation,
Campo Santo transports the classic play from Denmark to our own
drug-ravaged Oakland in the 1980s. If any theater group can make
concept Shakespeare soar, this is the one – simply the best acting
core in the Bay Area. Oct. 26-Nov. 20. Intersection for the Arts,
446 Valencia, SF. $9-$20. (415) 626-2787,
2. DEFIXONES: Orders From the Dead If you’ve heard Diamanda Galas
sing, you’ve been amazed or shocked in the depths of your soul. Here,
her three-and-a-half octave voice takes on the Armenian genocide in
what promises to be a theatrical assault you won’t soon forget. Oct.
19 and 21. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, 701 Mission, SF.
$15-$35. (415) 978-2787,
SFBG
John Wilkins is artistic director of Last Planet Theatre.

IRANIAN “ESCAPE” SOUNDTRACK RECORDED IN ARMENIA
Tehran Times, Iran
Aug. 30, 2006
TEHRAN — Iranian composer Peyman Yazdanian finished recording some
parts of a soundtrack for Niki Karimi’s “Escape” in Armenia, he told
the MNA on Saturday.
“I was familiar with her work style since I had composed a soundtrack
for her previous film ‘One Night’,” Yazdanian added.
The classic pieces of “Escape” soundtrack were recorded in Armenia
for better quality, he explained. “The soundtrack has been mostly
played by piano, flute, and cello.”
“Escape” is the second film of Karimi as a directress and tells
the story of Shahrzad, a girl who has to make crucial decisions in
her life.
The film stars Karimi and Nilufar Khoshkholq.

TV’S LEAST DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE
by Alex Strachan, CanWest News Service
Edmonton Journal (Alberta)
August 30, 2006 Wednesday
Final Edition
Mary-Louise Parker returns in offbeat ‘dramedy’ Weeds for a second
season
WEEDS Starring: Mary-Louise Parker Time and channel: 11 tonight
on Showcase
Chalk one up to pot luck. Mary-Louise Parker is flying high after her
potentially career-defining role in the smokin’ Weeds, the black comedy
about a dope-dealing soccer mom that returns to Showcase today, two
weeks after its second-season debut on the U.S. cable channel Showtime.
In a recent conference call with reporters, Parker confirmed that she
is into Weeds for the long haul, even though she’s as different from
her character as night and day.
“I think she’s a bit reckless,” Parker said. “She isn’t someone who
thinks ahead.”
Weeds is one of those hard-to-pin-down comedic dramas — dramedies
— that blurs the line between right and wrong, for the sake of
philosophical argument and discussions around the office water cooler
or cafe bar.
Earlier this year, Parker was shocked to win the Golden Globe over
the Desperate Housewives actresses for her performance as Weeds’
morally challenged suburban mom Nancy Botwin — the “least desperate
housewife,” as Entertainment Weekly called her after her Golden
Globe win.
Parker was snubbed at this year’s Emmy nominations, but she has won
before: She won both an Emmy and Golden Globe for playing Harper Pitt,
the valium-addicted wife of a closeted gay lawyer, in Mike Nichols’s
epic six-and-a-half-hour HBO adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Broadway
play Angels in America. She also won a best-actress Tony Award,
in 2001, for Proof.
Thanks to Weeds, though, Parker’s profile has never been hotter —
not even when she played women’s rights activist Amelia (Amy) Gardner
in The West Wing in 2001.
“The very first movie I ever did in my life ran for two days and
tanked. I was so excited before it came out. But that taught me not
to have any expectations, and so I never do have expectations. If
anything, I thought some people would be pretty offended by this. I
didn’t think it would necessarily be something that people would dig.
“So I guess it has been kind of surprising.”
Weeds’ second season will turn up the heat, literally and figuratively,
Parker promises. That bit of business with the Armenian gangsters,
for example: It looked as if it had been settled once and for all,
but appearances can be deceiving. The Armenians may be back.
And they may be angry.
JUSTICE FOR ALL
Justice, the new courtroom drama from Jerry Bruckheimer and one-time
Janet Reno assistant counsel Jonathan Shapiro, opens with brisk,
slick urgency: A Malibu starlet is found floating face-down in her
swimming pool and the media is all over the crime scene.
Local police arrest the starlet’s husband, a real estate tycoon
(Kevin Tramell), for her murder. He swears it was an accident, and
he turns to the high-profile law firm of Trott, Nicholson, Tuller &
Graves — TNT&G, get it? — for help.
TNT&G swoops in, in the person of star attorney Ron Trott (London,
Ont.’s Victor Garber, chewing scenery like there’s no tomorrow),
while a grotesque, Nancy Grace-like TV talk-show host (Katherine La
Nasa) ridicules the defence’s case on a 24-hour news channel that
looks suspiciously like CNN but isn’t.
Justice is pure Bruckheimer — CSI from the defendant’s point of
view. It’s big, noisy, slick to look at, snappy to listen to and quick
to push buttons. If it weren’t so well made, it could be dismissed as
trash — Justice is so over-the-top, it makes Law & Order look like
Bleak House by comparison — but there are some things to recommend it.
For one, it focuses on the media coverage of trials, from the fictional
Nancy Grace-inspired cable show American Crime to the hoards of
reporters and photographers who swarm high-profile court cases,
jostling and elbowing each other aside for the best camera position.
For another, each episode ends with a flashback in which viewers
find out whether the accused actually did the deed. It’s a clever
gimmick, but with a potential downside: If viewers feel they have
been manipulated once too often, they may tune out.
By premiering a couple of weeks before the official start of the
season, though, Justice has a chance to reel in curiousity seekers
before the crush begins in earnest. The jury is out on where it goes
from there, but my guess is it will be strong enough to last the
season. (9 p.m. on CTV, 10 p.m. on Fox)
GRAPHIC: Photo: Supplied; Mary-Louise Parker didn’t think her role
in Weeds as a dope-dealing soccer mom would catch the attention of
viewers as much as it has.